SolidWorks has a pretty powerful rendering engine called PhotoView 360 and it's…now integrated into SolidWorks.…Within SolidWorks what we did is we took this model of this engine, which was…an assembly of multiple parts, and we did a Save As and we turned an assembly…into an individual part.…When you do that, it actually ends up with a bunch of solid bodies all in one part here.…One of the reasons we are doing that is so we don't have to include multiple…parts in a huge assembly.…So we have just one part with all the different bodies inside that one part, it…makes it easy for rendering.…

As you can see we have 163 bodies here and we've got a bunch of different…materials on each one of these parts.…So each one of these parts themselves we can add a material to and an appearance.…Now, on the top of the screen here you can see I have Render Tools, and…that's Edit Appearances, Edit Scenes, or even Edit Decals.…So we have a couple of options there and those are available all the time.…You can always click on Edit Appearance if it's something like this so we want…

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3/7/2012

In this course, author Gabriel Corbett shows how to create manufacturing-ready parts and assemblies in SOLIDWORKS 2012. Beginning with simple 2D sketching and the software's sketch-editing tools, the course provides step-by-step instruction on building 3D geometry from 2D sketches. The course covers creating complex 3D objects with the Extrude, Revolve, Sweep, and Loft tools and shows building complex assemblies by mating individual parts together into robust assemblies and structures.

The course shows how to cut and revolve holes into parts and use the Hole Wizard tool to generate industry standard holes like counter bores, counter sinks, and taps. Best practice for designing parts is emphasized throughout the course as well as methods for creating parts faster and easier using equations, mirroring, and patterning tools. The course wraps up with generating manufacturing-ready drawings complete with an itemized Bill of Materials. As a bonus feature, Gabriel shows how to photo render a final design. Exercise files are included with the course.